So I Just Binge Watched All Of The Dragon Prince And I Have One Thing To Say:

PSA: SXHOOL SPIRITS HAS BEEN RENEWED FIR SEASON 3

aaravos was right actually because if a bunch of weird ass star cops murdered my autistic daughter in front of me and then i was imprisoned in a crater with her bones and filled with my tears by the fuckass dragon who ratted out my daughter I would have totally committed The Atrocities too

borders between countries aren't real btw we just made them up. there's no such thing as an "immigrant" we're all just people moving around on the same planet that we've always moved around on

Leola is confirmed to be autistic!!

Is Destiny a book you write yourself?

In S2 of The Dragon Prince we get Callum's iconic line, and in S5, a version of it appears in Viren's dark magic induced dream as well.

Both Callum and young Viren say that they get to make their own choices. Their own decisions.

But what if... they don't?

We meet again. Only this time, here I am on the other side. The path of fate is already chosen. Every step I took, I took because I had to.

This is what Viren says when he first sees the mirror in the dream sequence. Initially, I thought this was a reference to how he is now the one becoming trapped, not Aaravos. But that isn't the case.

Because he's not talking about the mirror; he's talking to the mirror. And the person on the other side. Teenage Viren, from the first time that he used Dark Magic. (I believe that this was confirmed by the writers of the show but don't quote me on that).

Years ago, as a teenager, Viren used dark magic for the first time. And he saw, in his vision, an older and corrupted version of himself. This older version of himself warned him of what was to come and told him that his fate was already decided. That every step he took, he took because he had to.

It's very similar to the conversation that Callum has with "Other Callum" in his dark magic dream. And crucially, Young Viren has a similar response to the one Callum had. He says that

No matter where you are on the path, no matter what you’ve done before, every step forward is a choice.

He rebels against this idea. He says his version of "Destiny is a book you write yourself". And yet... decades later he finds himself precisely where he was told he would end up.

Viren rebelled against the concept of Destiny, and yet, he ended up right where he was told he would.

And this raises the question; if Viren saw his future when he was a teenager, and it came true, then was it more than a vision? Was his destiny already written?

And so... is destiny actually a book you write yourself, or do you have no choice in the steps you take down the chosen path of fate?

Just food for thought going into the next season. Cheers.

Again falling back on the domino effect that they emphasized s6

I think the sad thing is that Viren didn't have to coin Kpp'Ar, y'know? Yes, the old man had threatened him, but there was no way Kpp'Ar was going to reach King Atticus that night to tell him of Viren's choice/betrayal, let alone before Viren could save Soren.

Viren could've hurried home, uncorrupted, probably gotten the tears from Lissa consensually because she wouldn't have been scared of him, and then saved Soren.

There would've been consequences. Maybe banishment from court or Katolis (at best), or arrest / imprisonment (at worst). But the rest of his family would've been Okay.

But Kpp'Ar had said "You will lose everything" (your position, your status, etc) and Viren couldn't have that, so he coined his mentor and set off a domino affect... until he really had Lost Literally Everything, and it was too late.

My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys voice memo (download)

Once had to write I 500 word essay. But I hated the topic so much I made a 1000 word essay talking shit about it. I got an A :).

im still losing it over the "how did high schoolers write 600 word essays before chatgpt" post. 600 words. that is nothing. that is so few words what do you mean you can't write 600 words. 600 words. this post right here is 45 words.

Hot take Claudia has BPD

dads will literally have a revelation about how poorly they've treated you and then die in a magical act of self-sacrifice just to give themselves the most complicated legacy and you the most inscrutable daddy issues in the world